Tangible Image Query

Kresimir Matkovic, Thomas Psik, I. Wagner, Werner Purgathofer
Tangible Image Query
In Proceedings of Smart Graphics 2004. May 2004.
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This paper introduces a tangible user interface for browsing and retrieving images from an image database. The basis for the query to the image database is a color layout sketch, which is used by the underlying query algorithm to find the best matches. The users are provided with colored cubes of various sizes (1.5 to 4 cm) and colors (8 base colors). The users can place and arrange the colored cubes on a small table to create a color layout sketch. Multiple users can use this interface to collaborate in an image query. To evaluate the benefits of the interface, it is compared to a traditional GUI application in which the users use a mouse to create a color layout sketch.

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@inproceedings{matkovic-2004-tang,
  title =      "Tangible Image Query",
  author =     "Kresimir Matkovic and Thomas Psik and I. Wagner and Werner
               Purgathofer",
  year =       "2004",
  abstract =   "This paper introduces a tangible user interface for browsing
               and retrieving images from an image database. The basis for
               the query to the image database is a color layout sketch,
               which is used by the underlying query algorithm to find the
               best matches. The users are provided with colored cubes of
               various sizes (1.5 to 4 cm) and colors (8 base colors). The
               users can place and arrange the colored cubes on a small
               table to create a color layout sketch. Multiple users can
               use this interface to collaborate in an image query. To
               evaluate the benefits of the interface, it is compared to a
               traditional GUI application in which the users use a mouse
               to create a color layout sketch.",
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  month =      5,
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of Smart Graphics 2004",
  publisher =  "Springer",
  location =   "Banff, Canada",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2004/matkovic-2004-tang/",
}